A photo posted on Twitter by Uber Entertainment's Chandana Ekanayake shows a t-shirt with a Half-Life 3 logo, saying: "All I'm saying is I saw this at a local game developer event worn by a Valve employee." Whether this is significant, or just trolling is not clear yet. The two hash tags he uses for this are #HalfLife3 and #ValveTrolling. Thanks Computer and Video Games.

Gabe being a good boss who cares about his employees doesn't mean he lets them run around doing whatever they want all day. If you don't believe there is any authority or management at Valve then I have some land and a bridge in Africa to sell you.

Erik Wolpow has given interviews where he talks about how even his wife doesn't get how Valve operates. He's said that even he doesn't think it should work, but somehow it does. Remember Gabe wasn't sure about doing L4D2 so soon after the original. People wanted to do it though, so it happened.

People at Valve do what they want. Nobody tells them what to do, they operate autonomously based on feedback from each other. They don't care about money either; Gabe has stated that the goal is to make employees at Valve rich enough so that the desire to make money doesn't cloud their judgement.

It's worth remembering that Valve came about because Gabe was a Microsoft millionaire. He decided to carry on making software when lots of other guys were cashing in their options and deciding to sail around the world.

I'll tell you this: Gabe sounds like a fucking AWESOME guy to work for. <3